By D.A. Kirk
This story originally appeared on TrigTent.com.
When states started locking down during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was mostly in favor of it. But I also believed that there were serious questions — questions about how long the lockdowns would last, how restrictive they would be, and how they would be enforced — that were worthy of discussion and debate. I’m well-versed in the psychological and financial impact of long-term isolation, so I knew very well that there would be at least some resistance to the lockdowns. I also knew that the longer the stay-at-home orders remained in effect, the more widespread and intense that resistance would become. And that’s why it had been my sincerest hope that advocates of the lockdowns would at least be willing to hear skeptics out. Unfortunately, that isn’t what happened.
Instead, when some conservatives, libertarians, and other like-minded citizens began to protest against the lockdowns, their objections were met with near-instant condemnation. On Twitter and Facebook, they were called “grandma killers” and accused…
